“For a job?”
Knox sighed. “Yes, for a job. It’s when I went out for the day. I’d lined up a few of them. That was the only one I was waiting to hear back from.”
I frowned. “And she said no?”
Knox nodded.
“What job?” I leaned against the railing just after the door.
“What else?” He laughed, but it sounded forced. “A chef position at the French place on Warner.”
“Oh.” It was a really fancy restaurant. “You wanted to work there?”
“I wanted to work,” Knox corrected, tense and irritable. “Just in the industry. I went a state away to get my education properly, and I still can’t get a job.”
He sighed and rubbed a hand over his face roughly. “Sorry. I shouldn’t be spewing all this at you.”
I shook my head and stepped forward, coaxing his hand down again. “I don’t mind. Really. You deserve to get a job you like, and you can talk to me about it. I guess I should have expected it.”
He couldn’t be here forever, after all. My dad had hired him for a month, but not longer than that. And Knox had made it pretty clear that a private chef wasn’t really what he wanted to do.
“Let’s think about something else.” Knox stood up, taking a deep breath. “Literally anything else.”
I frowned. “But–”
“Please, Lucy?”
Well, that just wasn’t fair.
I pouted. “That’s not fair.”
Knox smiled. “Life isn’t fair, Lucy.”
“But now this is all I’m going to be able to think about.”
“Then we need to give you a distraction.”
“Are you going to force me into another game of laser tag?”
Knox smirked. “I wasn’t going to, but if you’re so eager for a repeat of what happened at the laser tag place, I am happy to oblige.”
I blushed, the memory of his hands on my thighs returning.
“That’s not what I meant.”
Knox hummed and stepped into my space again, lifting his hands to my waist and sliding them under my shirt.
I shivered. “Uh, Knox? What are you doing?”
Knox studied me.
“Knox?”
“Do you trust me?” he asked instead of answering my question.
“I–yes.” I surprised myself with the swiftness of my answer. Was I really that gone on Knox already? “Should I not?”
Knox chuckled. “Stop doubting yourself, will you? Trust me, and I will reward you.”
